I was in an
elevator last evening when a random remembrance popped into my head for some
reason, but I could not identify the reason. It was a memory that had no
special or for that matter, any significance to me. It just suddenly showed up,
like an uninvited houseguest. How do these things occur? If I wasn’t
consciously thinking about it, where did it come from? I doubt I was
subconsciously thinking about it. This made me wonder about the things people
sometimes do or say. So often, we are on automatic pilot when we are going
about our lives. We don’t even think about what we are going to say sometimes,
it just comes out, of habit probably. But why are certain thoughts recalled by
the mind at certain times with no prompting? Especially thoughts that are meaningless?
What controls this? Why do we start humming a song without even thinking about
it? I don’t have the answers and I don’t think anyone does. The mind works in
strange ways. There are many components that we do not have any control over.
It is as if when we were born, we were programmed a certain way. I find it odd
that certain things are long ago forgotten and others remain in reach of the
thinking mass. I don’t think we somehow choose these memories or thoughts, they
just occur. I wish we could be selective about the things we remember or choose to forget.
